I started in the Sinter Plant, spent a little time in the Blast Furnace, then the PowerHouse before moving up to the G.O. Was there a while before going back down to the Slab Yard, Strip Steel, then finally up by #1 Gate. I left on my own when they shut down the hot end.
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I was a summer (temp) employee in 1972, 1973, and 1974. In 1972, I was a crane hook-up boy on the end of a plater in the Tin Mill. In 1973, I worked in the Blooming Mill. For a week, I worked the Hot Track, spent a Sunday in the grease pits, and then worked the rest of the summer as the shop boy in the Blooming Mill's Roll Shop (nice!). The summer of 1974 was spent in the Strip Steel in various jobs.
After college, I worked at National Steel's R & D facility up on the hill from Fall 1976 to Summer 1978. Then I went to graduate school for computer science.
My father worked in the mill for a long time, ending in 1980. He was an industrial engineer. He's still active in the museum in town.
George
